SENTENCED Attempted Gaol Breaking Prisoner Serving Seven Years. Brisbane
John Howard, who attempted to escape from Boggo Road Gaol last week, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment additional to the sentence of…
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Courts & crime, 1937
1,155 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 38 of 58
Calcutta Strikers Charged by Police with Laths. Calcutta
The police, armed with laths, charged a procession of sympathisers with the Andamanese strikers because the processionists refused to march ten at a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Marriage and the Police
The Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey) said on Friday that while the police regulations prevented some young single men in the force from marrying for a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gelignite Bomb Miner Charged With Throwing Newcastle Case. Newcastle
Allegations that he had thrown an improvised gelignite bomb and detonator at Norman Edmund Smith, in a tunnel at North Wallarah No. 2…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Garnishee Cases at Grafton Police Court
Only ninepence had been paid into court in connection with the garnishee case, Cecil George E[?]leston, storekeeper, of South Grafton, v. Jack…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Scriven Murder After Four Trials Accused Allowed to Go Free. Melbourne
The Crown Prosecutor, Mr. Book, K.C., informed Mr. Justice Gavan Duffy in the Criminal Court to-day that the Crown would not fight the presentment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Scrap Iron Export to Japan Grafton Court Case Claim for £50 DAMAGES
A dispute over the alleged nondelivery of 100 tons of s[?]rap iron, which was for export to Japan, was aired before Mr. J. McE[?]roy, P.M.,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Murder Charge South Australian Tragedy Man Stabbed. Adelaide
Evidence as the inquest into the death of Ronald Keith Jasper, who died [?] Port Pirie Hospital on August 10, disclosed unusual circumstances…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Come Quickly" Daughter Phones Police Mother Shot Dead Tragic Accident at Tamworth Tamworth
A fatal shooting took place at the homestead of Cr. A. G. Pankhurst, 11 miles from Tamworth, this afternoon, the victim being Mrs. Frances…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Perjury Charge Echo Of Scriven Murder Two Central Figures in Court. Melbourne
Found guilty in the Criminal Court to-day on a charge of perjury, Ruper Davies (28) was sentenced to two years imprisonment, with hard labor. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Abduction Charge Man Appears Before Court. Lismore
John Trevor Kelly, who failed to appear at Lismore Quarter Sessions yesterday to answer charges of abduction and a serious offence on a 14 years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maclean Police Court Aboriginal Fined Assault at Maclean
At the Maclean Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., Jack Simms, a laborer, of Ulgundahi Island, proceeded against Denny Roach, an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Man Shot Bullet Through Temple Chatswood Tragedy Woman Charged with Murder Sydney
William Thomas (60). of Fuller's Bridge road, Chatswood was found in his bed this afternoon with a bullet wound through his temple…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Years Man With Frightful Record Sentenced in Brisbane
John Wilson. 45, cabinetmaker, who pleaded guilty before Mr. Acting Justice Graham in the Brisbane Criminal Court to four charges of breaking and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Husband Charged Wife Declined to Give Evidence. Sydney
Steel Hall Ross, 34, was committed for trial at the Central Court to-day on a charge of having at Rose Bay on July 20, shot at his wife, Dorothy Ross, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cattle Stealing a Cow And A Heifer a Yamba Case Butcher Fined
Louis Francis Teece was charged before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., at the Maclean Police Court yesterday with having at Yamba on July 7, stolen a roan…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Use of Wireless at Newcastle
With the installation at Waratah complete and all tests satisfactory, Newcastle police began on Monday the use of wireless for sending messages to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →300 LASHES For Stealing Watch Ancient English Warrants a Story of a Statue
In the course of an address to the Grafton Rotary Club on Monday on "Interesting Things Seen With the Coronation Contingent," Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Poison of Corruption Police Commissioner Addresses Rotarians
"The Police Service and What it Stands For" was the subject of an address by Mr. Duncan, Commissioner of Police, in Victoria, at the Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Nudist Camp Police Are Searching Report From Berowra
For the past week plainclothes police have been searching the bush along the banks of Berowra Creek, on the Hawkesbury River, near Berowra,for…
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